Sommers, Edward John

1899 - 1978  (79 years)    Has 10 ancestors and 39 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Sommers, Edward John  [1]
  Born	19 Oct 1899	Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  1930 Census	1930	Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Edward J Sommers 30 Anna Sommers 30 De Lillis Sommers 1 8/12 Catherine Sommers 2/12 Alloysius Noehl 23
  1940 Census	1940	Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Edward J Sommers30 Anna Sommers30 Delellis Sommers1 [1 8/12] Catheren Sommers0 [2/12] Alloysius Noehl23
  Biography	BIOGRAPHIE: from DeLellis M Sommers Strong - August, 1995 Our parents, Edward Sommers and Anna Pritzl, met while Anna was living with her invalid mother on the Bohman farm near Hortonville. After her mother passed away, they were married in St Patrick Church in Stephensville were they paid pew rent and sat in the second pew on the right hand side of church every Sunday. Anna sang in the choir for many years. They had bought a 120 acre farm just a few miles NE of Stephenville. They were very happy and enjoyed working on the farm, having a large garden, an orchard of Apple trees, Pear trees and grape vines, berry bushes and they raised chickens and ducks. Dad used work horses for many years. They then bought another 60 acres and a tractor and more machinery. In those days, the neighbors all went back and forth filling silos and thrashing. Mother and dad were blessed with 10 children. On October 6, 1926 twins Harold and Gerald were born at home on the farm. Harold lived 8 hours and Gerald 16 hours. Then there were DeLellis, Catherine, Dorothy, Edward Jr., Eugene, Eunice, Helen and John. Like all children, growing up on the farm, we learned to help every day, working right along with Ma and dad. We helped in the barn, fed the cows and the calves, and horses too, went up in the hay mow and threw the hay down, planted and weeded in the garden, went to the woods and gathered wood for the furnace. One incident I remember was Dorothy throwing wood down the cellar chute and a piece flew up and broke a porch window which scared us all to death. Dad came out, looked at it with a very sober, straight face, took it out, went to the shed, got a new glass, fixed it and never said a word. For three days, us kids were very careful how we did our work. We all walked to the Pershing Grade School, about 1 ½ miles each way. When we got to school, each child had to carry in an armful of wood. We would raise the flag, go next door to the cheese factory for pails of water to put in the water fountain. Our mother did most of all of our sewing, everything from pajamas to our beautiful plaid skirts. We had lots of feed bags that we bleached out, were sewn into aprons, bloomers or what-ever was needed. A lot of the flour sacks the girls hemmed up and did embroidery on them for dish towels and luncheon cloths. Ma even made her own soap using Eagle Lye. Out in the pump house, dad had his tool bench and shoe repair form. Whenever a sole came loose or a heel needed to be tacked on, he fixed it. Ma will always be remembered for all her baking. "Home Made Bread?" NO ! But home canning, making butter and kolatches. Many relatives would take a Sunday ride, stop to see Aunt Anna and Uncle Ed on the farm and have a meal. Oven baked chicken, home-made bread, fresh pies, etc. . and many times went home with something. For the 4th of July, our treat was a watermelon, and on New Years day, we had home made ice cream, made with the hand turned freezer, (Snow, with salt added) around the sides, and sometimes, Ma even put flavoring in. We had a raspberry and strawberry patch and had lots of orders for them as we delivered them too when we dressed chickens and ducks, took them to Appleton to private homes and to Gloudman & Gage (Clothing and grocery store). With the money, Ma did her grocery and clothes shopping. We always had plenty of food and also crates of peaches or whatever we needed. For the kids, dad planted a pickle patch. I'm sure it was more than an acre. What ever we picked, we would load them on the truck, and go to Greenville to the sorting machine. The money from this was ours for clothes, shoes and all of our school supplies. We had plenty of pickles, and one time I can remember we were getting sick of picking them, so once in a while, we would pull a vine out by the roots, hoping some would die, but no, that made the plant next to it grow bigger and with more pickles. We just couldn't get rid of this job. Ma did all of the home canning until later years, we got a freezer from a place in Manitowoc, for our meats and vegetables. We also had a room called the potato cellar. For many years Ma and dad made dandelion, grape and elderberry wine and a small glass every day was considered healthy. There were many times when we would bring friends home from school with us and there would always be plenty for us to eat and do. We had lots of pets to take care of, a dog, a mother cat and her kittens, bandy chickens and a small goat. The goat would watch the back door as he loved to run into the house with the kids, up the steps and jump on that old leather couch. In those days, there would be a "Barn Dance", and everyone came, danced all night and the neighbors enjoyed being together. Always on May 1st, we and the neighbor children would hang "May Baskets". As we grew up, found jobs and got married, Ma and dad sold the farm, moved to Shiocton for a few years and then moved to Appleton where Ma worked at the hospital and dad did different jobs. As of today , there are 5 of us children left to carry on and we all say; What a beautiful life growing up on the farm, learning to do so many things, the "daily Rosary", the Angelus. We are hoping we can pass this on to our children and grandchildren.
  Died	2 Dec 1978	Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Buried	5 Dec 1978	St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I88271	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Sommers, Henry Edward,   b. 7 Oct 1859, Greenville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 3 May 1932  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Heidemann, Anna,   b. 28 Feb 1874, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 8 Sep 1963, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F28435	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pritzl, Anna Frances,   b. 26 Jul 1899, Kasson, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 7 Dec 1974, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Married	10 Jun 1925	Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Children	1. Sommers, Harold,   b. 6 Oct 1926, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 6 Oct 1926, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 0 years)   2. Sommers, Gerald,   b. 6 Oct 1926, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 6 Oct 1926, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 0 years) + 3. Sommers, Delellis Mary,   b. 19 Jul 1928, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 5 Feb 2012, Edgar, Marathon, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 83 years)   4. Sommers, Catherine,   b. 29 Jan 1930, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 10 Jan 1931, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 0 years) + 5. Sommers, Dorothy,   b. 20 Jun 1931, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 26 Dec 2016  (Age 85 years) + 6. Sommers, Edward Francis,   b. 29 Oct 1932, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 20 Dec 1972, Shiocton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 40 years)   7. Sommers, Eugene Henry,   b. 25 May 1934, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 9 Jul 1994, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 60 years) + 8. Sommers, Eunice,   b. 17 Jan 1936, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 23 Apr 2010, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 74 years) + 9. Sommers, Helen
  Last Modified	1 May 2010
  Family ID	F45734	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 19 Oct 1899 - Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Married - 10 Jun 1925 - Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1930 Census - 1930 - Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1940 Census - 1940 - Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Died - 2 Dec 1978 - Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Buried - 5 Dec 1978 - St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S335] Internet. Robert James Pritzl, 128 Apple Tree Avenue, Florida rpritzl@strato.net http://www.strato.net/~rpritzl/index.htm#toc